Al-Qa'ida 9/11 chief reveals US got off lightly

The Australian, From The Sunday Times ^ | March 29, 2004 | Sunday Times sources

[NormsRevenge]

Bump

[Sender]

Oh yeah, now I remember those pilots. I'm starting to forget facts from 9/11 after these few years. Well some of the second wave may have been pax.

Another thing I've forgotten...did Mohammed Atta and the others use their real names when they bought tickets? If so, and the others never thought about the possibility of grouding the planes, they probably would have used their real names too, the better to be listed in glory on TV.

[Dallas59]

Get rid of him.

[crz]

("Afterwards we never got time to catch our breath, we were immediately on the run," Khalid said.)



Kinda like kicking a bald faced hornets (blackjackets) nest hey bub?

[RichInOC]

Khalid, you and all your fellow pig-humping terrorists could be tortured to within an inch of your life in the main courtyard of the Great Mosque, then have the mosque carpet bombed with wild boars, then be taken out by an ICBM along with the rest of Mecca, then spend the next million years being tortured by the demons of hell, and you'd still be getting off lightly.

[KangarooJacqui]

More than lightly, I'd say.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Nice tag line.

[Travis McGee]

We're going to find out, sooner or later,

If Abdul will pray, to a glowing crater.

[leadhead]

I wonder what Osama's screen name is?

He's dead, Jim.

[SuziQ]

In the spring of 2000, after a planning meeting in Kuala Lumpur, bin Laden scaled back the plan from two-prong to two-wave because they had been unable to get enough potential pilots into the US. Moussaoui succeeded in entering the US, but the order went out for potential recruits who were not Arab, Khalid told his captors.

Now wait just a dad-blamed minute!! Didn't Richard Clarke just get finished telling everyone that it was Preisdent Bush's fault that we got attacked on Sept. 11th, 2001? How can this be when it was in the planning stages before he was even elected? /sarcasm.

[risk]

Just doing my duty as a patriotic citizen of the Free World.

I like the sound of that. Keep it coming!

[RichInOC]

Oh, I've been using variations on that one for a while.

[DefCon]

Mohammed Atta stayed a couple months in the summer of 2001
in the Atlanta area, flying private planes out of a small
airport on the northeast side of town. He stayed in a
little motel about 5 miles from where I live.
To my knowledge there has never been any firm evidence
as to what he was doing or why he was here.

[KangarooJacqui]

Just doing my duty as a patriotic citizen of the Free World.

I like the sound of that. Keep it coming!

I live roughly five miles from where Australia's strike force of F-111's are stationed, and from what I hear everyday, those boys (and girls) are ready to take on anyone, at a moment's notice, the next time they're asked to. (I heard those massive engines roaring not long after the Twin Towers fell, in the early hours of the morning here, and just knew Amberley RAAF was on alert status.)

I'm not fit for the military, sadly, so I do my best with my own words and others' words to inspire faith in our countries and our way of life. Aussies and Americans aren't so different in that respect, or in many others. We value our families, our friends and our freedom!

[KangarooJacqui]

Mohammed Atta stayed a couple months in the summer of 2001 in the Atlanta area, flying private planes out of a small airport on the northeast side of town. He stayed in a little motel about 5 miles from where I live.

How very chilling, to have been in such close proximity to such enormously callous evil...

[DBrow]

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[risk]

"Audemus jura nostra defendere" has been translated as: "We Dare Maintain Our Rights" or "We Dare Defend Our Rights." This Latin phrase is on the state coat of arms completed in 1923. --Alabama state motto.

[luvbach1]

Despite the setbacks, Khalid described the September 11 attack as "far more successful than we had ever imagined".

I don't think they expected to bring down the towers.

[luvbach1]

Despite the setbacks, Khalid described the September 11 attack as "far more successful than we had ever imagined".

I don't think they expected to bring down the towers.

[Richard Kimball]

Reading this article convinced me to donate $100 to Bush-Cheney. Challenge any other Freepers to match it, and you ain't got a hair on your *ss if you don't.

Click on the logo, then click on donate at the bottom of the page. Think about what would have happened if Gore had been in charge.